Crossfire never comes up to be enabled. I have tried 2 different bridges that were brand new out of the box. The first time I installed the card with bridge, both cards showed up under GPUz and under device manager. Now, only the sapphire shows up under GPUz and device manager with the bridge connected. I don't know what the problem is here...

sounds like a driver issue try a clean install but check to see if CCC sees both cards first while in CCC try to disable & re-enable crossfire might work ... 12.4 drivers have some real issues

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+1 Frogger

I also think the ccc control panel is confused "version conflict" of sorts, you may wish to skip the following as there are other ways of cleaning ccc drivers out; there is a sticky by erocker at the top of the Graphics Cards page on TPU

However this is the method I use.

First things first; set a restore point and back-up any files and download Driversweeper v_2.1.0 [use this version of DS only]

mouse button- bring up menu run DS in administrator mode) select ATI only in DS and analyse then delete

NOTE when it ask you if you want to restart the system DONT - instead open control panel and go to

Device Manager / Display Adapters (open this) you should be able to see a vga card installed - highlight press right mouse button - will open a sub menu -you want uninstall - when the system asks you to restart DONT - Then open control panel, device manager, select view/show hidden devices/Non-Plug and play Drivers/highlight amdkmdag and press right mouse button to bring up a sub menu/select uninstall (When it ask you to restart DONT;- select No option to restart later

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\ (you will see lots of folders we need the thirteenth (13) folder down from "Class" - open the folder and you will see 0000 delete this folder and any others 0001,0002 Note the Properties folder is read only and protected leave this as it is.

close up all the sub folders and move on to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Class\ (you will see lots of folders we need the thirteenth (13) folder down from "Class" - open the folder and you will see 0000 delete this folder and any others 0001,0002 Note the Properties folder is read only and protected leave this as it is

close up all the sub folders and move on to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ (you will see lots of folders we need the thirteenth (13) folder down from "Class" - open the folder and you will see 0000 delete this folder and any others 0001,0002 Note the Properties folder is read only and protected leave this as it is

(you only need to check CCS there should be no entries in the thirteenth folder other than properties)

close up all the sub folders and move on to

HKEY_USERS \.DEFAULT\Software\ATI and delete the ATI folder

-Close Regedit

next go back to the driversweeper software (Do you want to reboot screen) and select ok

-Reboot - allow windows to start up and find a vga driver

-then install the latest AMD catalyst Drivers from their web site or use drivers that you know work well Note: Catalyst 11.9 may be a good option

I uninstalled all of my drivers... I'm starting to think I just need to buy another XFX card so it will work... That way I'm using the same card so there will be no conflicts.

These two cards may not be compatible.

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Sounds like a good plan; however a little costly. Once apon a time I used two HD 5970's in my system a Sapphire and an XFX when I used these I could only get them to work when I installed the Sapphire as the primary card PCIe slot 1 and xfx in PCIe slot two due to memory timings on both cards differing from one another.

Sounds like a good plan; however a little costly. Once apon a time I used two HD 5970's in my system a Sapphire and an XFX when I used these I could only get them to work when I installed the Sapphire as the primary card PCIe slot 1 and xfx in PCIe slot two due to memory timings on the both cards differing from one another.

The rig I am currently talking about has the 650watt cooler master. What I don't understand is why they both first appeared on my first initial install... In the catalyst software there wasn't an option for crossfire though.

I went ahead and bought the xfx 6870 because it is a significantly smaller card than my sapphire. The sapphire barely fits in my case currently. So I will be selling it if anyone is interested, just PM me.

The rig I am currently talking about has the 650watt cooler master. What I don't understand is why they both first appeared on my first initial install... In the catalyst software there wasn't an option for crossfire though.

The system in my system specs tab is an older system of mine now. I currently use that system as a server for backed up data spanning years back. My current system is the amd fx4770 with the above mentioned components and 16gb of 1333mhz ddr3 ram.